From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [schierlm@gmx.de: Display problem on Windows with time zones containing Non-ASCII characters.] Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:42:12 +0100 Message-ID: <46671C24.5000607@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181162549 29223 80.91.229.12 (6 Jun 2007 20:42:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 20:42:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 06 22:42:27 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hw2Ko-0007EZ-Rc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:42:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hw2Kn-0007YS-Ln for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:42:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hw2Kk-0007Y9-Gr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:42:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hw2Ki-0007XJ-Sm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:42:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hw2Ki-0007XG-Mn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:42:20 -0400 Original-Received: from outmail1.freedom2surf.net ([194.106.33.237]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hw2Ke-0008NI-MP; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:42:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net [83.67.23.108]) by outmail1.freedom2surf.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC2FE506C0; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 21:42:15 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:72369 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > Would someone please fix this, then ack? > I will fix it, probably by forcing Windows to use numeric timezones. Looking at the history of the previous fix, the fix I posted previously is wrong, since the result of current-time-zone is used for mail headers, where non-ASCII characters are not allowed, and the POSIX timezone names are expected, not what Windows produces in most locales.